Re: dynamically allocating on the stack

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 21 April 2018 at 07:37:50 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
Does D have some way to dynamically allocate on the stack?  I'm 
looking for something roughly equivalent to the following C 
code.

int doSomething(size_t len)
{
    char stackBuffer[len + 1];
    doSomethingElse(stackBuffer);
}


Unbounded allocation on stack is kind of anti-pattern and a 
potential DoS vector.

A separate region allocator is exactly as fast and can easily 
survive across boundaries of function calls.

Also you probably want something like char[X] = void;
 for efficiency if allocating on stack.

Thanks,
Mike